The Center for Demography and Ecology is pleased to announce a seed grant competition to support pilot research for future grant applications to NIH. Request for Proposals: Deadline May 15, 2023 Research Focus Proposals on a wide range of topics related to the population sciences are invited. Of particular interest is research that address …
CDE & CDHA affiliates and graduate students presented a wide array of excellent research at the Population Association of America meetings last month. 57 affiliates appeared 104 times on the program! Two students won awards for their research: Emma Romell, for her study, “Converging Destinies? Patterns of Educational Attainment Following Divorce and Nonmarital Childbearing in …
Congratulations to Lonnie Berger, Associate Vice Chancellor for Research in the Social Sciences and Vilas Distinguished Achievement Professor of Social Work, for receiving the 2022 Social Policy Researcher Award from the Society for Social Work and Research. The award honors a social work scholar who has demonstrated distinguished achievement across an extended career of research …
For nearly 120 years, the Wisconsin Idea has shaped UW–Madison and the university’s commitment to public service. Based on the principle that education should influence people’s lives beyond the boundaries of the classroom, the Wisconsin Idea has become the guiding philosophy of university outreach efforts, both within the state and throughout the world. The UW …
CDE affiliate Tiffany Green is the recipient of a highly-competitive grant from the New Investigator Program from the Wisconsin Partnership Program at the School of Medicine and Public Health. The New Investigator funding provides support for early-career faculty to initiate innovative research and/or education projects that address Wisconsin’s health issues. The Wisconsin Partnership Program is …
At the Collaborative for Reproductive Equity (CORE), CDE affiliate Jenny Higgins leads a team of scholars that conducts high-quality, rigorous, policy-relevant, and community-engaged interdisciplinary research on reproductive health and healthcare, both nationally and locally within Wisconsin. Through their research, CORE investigators aim to inform and improve reproductive health programs and policies throughout the state. Higgins, …
Summer DemSem 2022 Causal Inference Short Course May 17-24: CDE affiliates are invited to participate in a 5-day short course led by Scott Cunningham (Economics, Baylor), author of Causal Inference: The Mixtape. Virtual training from 11-5 ET on May 17-19 on regression discontinuity, instrumental variable, and difference-in-difference designs (sign up here); followed by a two-day …
A hearty congratulations to Ariane Ophir, who completed her PhD in Sociology in the summer. A family sociologist who uses quantitative methods to understand how population dynamics (re)produce or undermine gender inequality, Ophir’s dissertation examined gender and housework in a changing demographic context. Ophir is now a postdoctoral researcher at the Centre for Demographic Studies …
Leigh Senderowicz is a postdoctoral researcher in the Health Disparities Research Scholars (HDRS) program—an interdisciplinary training program based in the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology in the School of Medicine and Public Health. Senderowicz is a social demographer and mixed-methods researcher whose work focuses on rights-based approaches to international sexual and reproductive health. Senderowicz’s research …
Over the last few months, several CDE affiliates received grants from NICHD to explore a range of topics affecting population dynamics and health. Congratulations to Lawrence Berger and Jennifer Dykema, Marcy Carlson, Monica Grant, Katherine Magnuson and Sarah Halpern-Meekin, Jenna Nobles and Felix Elwert, and Alejandra Ros Pilarz! Lawrence Berger is the PI for the …